prompt!!!

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

And we're back....

Yep, once again, this is a weekly challenge. For all the newbies, remember to get you post in with a timestamp of Saturday (or earlier), I put up the new challenge Sunday morning when I wake up (although being on the west coast of the U.S., that means Sunday afternoon for many of you).

This week I will definitely have to do something separate for the prompt because this is SO not going to fit into the ending of my Out of Tune series....

Crabapple

Comments

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

I'm hyperventilating here!

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

I thought 'tree' was pretty doable... I guess not. Um, I'm sorry.

[smwright.livejournal.com]

Are crabapple trees indigenous to the UK? Please...

[smwright.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabapple) claims they're found in Europe. A park in London? Maybe? Oh God, I'm panicking here...

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

You have to admit they're pretty trees, and I know they're EVERYWHERE in the midwest of the U.S., but I don't see them down here in the desert.

http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/Graphics/crabapple/crabapple.jpg

http://ostermiller.org/tree/crabapple.jpg

http://www.coxarboretum.org/images/facilities/Crabapple%20Allee%202.jpg

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horticulture/landipm/images/crabapple.jpg

http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/trees/blossoms/crab/cover.jpg

[persephone-20.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I just decided how I'm going to use this prompt. Thank you so much for linking me straight to Wiki, hon!

[smwright.livejournal.com]

Happy to help. You'll probably manage the job far better than I am!

[persephone-20.livejournal.com]

Hah! I dunno. I used to do prompts all the time, but right now, I can't help but think I'm a little rusty. All I can say is that I'm glad that I'm working on two WIPs, cause the idea I have just wouldn't fit with the way I've established my characters in yesterday's fic.

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

If its any help - it's said that apples were introduced to Britain by the Romans. And they wouldn't have had Cox's Orange Pippins in those days.... A bit of history for your histories?

[smwright.livejournal.com]

Oh, evil woman! Actually giving me Romano-British history. *scowls* I'm likely to just work a damned crabapple tree in there somehow. This is not at what I had in mind!

[piksa.livejournal.com]

Once more a word I don't recognise. I guess I have to consult my faithful friend Wikipedia. *g* I'm guessing this will be interesting...

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

I just put in a bunch of links to images if you come back and read this thread... maybe that will help.

[authoressnebula.livejournal.com]

Ho boy. Astra's contemplating it, but she's insisting that you give her a sexier prompt next time. ~_^

I'll work on it!

~Nebula

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

Sex in a crabapple tree? That would be sexy... or possibly just very full of splinters.

[authoressnebula.livejournal.com]

So...Spike's out, as is Angel. Hmmm...

*grins*

*goes back to snickering *

~Nebula

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

Um, wow. I have like not much ideas for that one. I think it'll have to be Seven or Runaway. MH won't fit that. Guess I'm going to have to get off my lazy ass and update this week.

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

Hey, Toys started as a standalone because sometimes I can't fit these prompts into ANYTHING I'm writing.

[meredevachon]

Seriously... crabapple?

Nah, it's okay. I'm starting to get just the inkling of a seed of what might someday become an idea. Of course, knowing me (and my muse) it'll probably be Sat. before I sit down to write the thing, and I'll be 5 ideas down the line by then.

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

Random prompts do tend to lead in some strange directions. I'm looking forward to seeing where you go with it.

[xocoatldreams.livejournal.com]

newbie to the comm and the first prompt I get is 'crabapple'? Funny thing is, there's a crabapple tree on the front lawn of my apartment building. Absolutely beautiful in the spring, but messy in the last summer

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

*looks at right column*

Well, we've had stranger! Welcome to the community, and I hope it inspires your muse.

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, welcome to the wacky and weird world of tamingthemuse. The first prompt I had was "Weregeld" and that took me in a totally strange direction.

Have fun, you'll think of something

[apsik.livejournal.com]

You're either very good for the expansion of my vocabulary or Wikipedia's paying you something :P

I'm totally lost by this prompt. Hopefully, Wikipedia will have something sensible to say about this word... *grumbles, harrumphs, gets to work*

Happy new year, boss! :]